Trevor McCrisken, Andrew Pepper

American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing exciting new perspectives to how and why Hollywood has sought to repicture American history, this book offers analysis of more than twenty mainstream contemporary films, including The Patriot, Amistad, Glory, Ride with the Devil, Cold Mountain, Saving Private Ryan, TheThin Red Line, Pearl Harbor, U-571, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth, JFK, Nixon, Malcolm X, Ali, Black Hawk Down, and Three Kings. Both authoritative and engaging, American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film is the first book to comprehensively explore the post-cold war period of filmmaking, and to navigate the complex ways that film mediates history—sometimes challenging or questioning, but more frequently reaffirming traditional interpretations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780813536217
• ISBN-10: 0813536219
• Artikelnr.: 21083729

Autorenporträt

McCrisken, Trevor

Inhaltsangabe

Lessons from Hollywood's American Revolution (Revolution
The Patriot) Rattling the chains of history : Steven Spielberg's Amistad and "telling everyone's story" (Roots
Amistad) Hollywood's Civil War dilemma : to imagine or unravel the nation? (Gettysburg
Glory
Ride with the devil
Cold Mountain) Saving the good war : Hollywood and World War II in the post-Cold War world (Saving Private Ryan
The thin red line
U-571
Pearl Harbor) Oliver Stone and the decade of trauma (Platoon
Born on the fourth of July
Heaven and Earth
JFK
Nixon) From civil rights to black nationalism : Hollywood v. black America? (Panther
Mississippi burning
The hurricane
Malcolm X
Ali) Hollywood's post-Cold War history : the "righteousness" of American interventionism (Three kings
Black Hawk down)